6 years, 2 babies and a pandemic later...
Today I finally graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy. It was a beautiful, sunny, winter's day in Oxford, and I got to share the experience with my wife and eldest daughter. It was a real treat.
The title of my thesis was Genomic epidemiology of malaria vectors in the Anopheles gambiae species complex, and for the most part the thesis comprises work I contributed to phase 1 of the Anopheles gambiae 1000 Genomes Project (Ag1000G).
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Looking back, I'm of course delighted and extremely grateful to all the wonderful people who supported me, not least Vikki Simpson, Martin Donnelly and of course my supervisor Dominic Kwiatkowski.
When I originally enrolled as a PhD student, I was 37 years old, with one daughter and a full-time job. The logic was that I could keep the job and do the PhD at the same time, because I was already working in a scientific position, and so I should be able to re-use a lot of the work I was doing anyway for a thesis. It sounded great in theory.